Insert A Trite Metaphor for a Corral #43

Posted on February 1, 2007 in Roundup

But it’s smaller than the ones I’ve seen in the locker room, honest! OK, the BlogFlux people won’t approve my blog for unstated reasons but their rejection notice suggested erotica. Technorati doesn’t care. So let’s start with the story of:

• The penis that can be seen from space. Two years ago, a couple of kids sprayed weed killer over the lawn at their school. The result was a striking, almost paleolithic penis. Recent satellite/aerial photos (it looks more like an aerial photo to me) show the penis just to the right of one of the buildings. There. My site is now porn. God will punish me by an innudation of spam in my comments.
• The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction discovered numerous instances of waste including a never-used Olympic sized swimming pool and a $43.3m residential camp for police trainers outside the Adnan Palace grounds in Baghdad that has never been used. Despite the rampant spending “Electricity output remains below pre-war levels, while funds initially earmarked for water and sewerage have been cut by 50%, the audit says.” The hogs are snorting.
• Security experts doubt that Vista is going to be more secure than any other operating system except earlier, heavily flawed versions of Window.
• Organizers of a blackface Martin Luther King party at Clemson insist that their party was not racially motivated, only meant to honor King by invoking “gangsta” culture. I am sure that the American apostle of nonviolence would have been thrilled by having himself compared to the most violent aspect of African American life. Give these students an “F” in understanding what MLK was all about.
• Tortilla prices continue to rise in Mexico, prompting tens of thousands to march in the capital.
• Was the head of the European court of human rights poisoned when he visited Russia? Is this allegation more evidence of [[Borgia]]-style diplomacy?
• (Manica will love this one.) Security at Prince Charles’ country home at Highgrove is undergoing a review after a 55-year old man bearing a pitchfork battled his way onto the grounds. Police have said little except that the man is from Bristol and that the Prince and the [[Duchess of Cornwall]] slept through the affair. No connection to Princess Diana’s death was pronounced, but who knows.
• Murderers of an entire season of fledgling terns will face criminal charges in Long Beach, California. “More than 500 terns — slim seabirds related to gulls but in this case too young to be able to fly — were carelessly swept off two privately owned barges in the Port of Long Beach in late June with high-pressure hoses before the vessels were moved. Only 23 birds survived in a case known as “terngate” among environmentalists”.
• One in four sufferers of eating disorders is a man. “Body image has become more important among men,” said co-author Dr. Harrison G. Pope Jr., a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. “There’s a large, silent population of men who might be quite ill.” More here.
• Researchers discovered that men like chick flicks.
• Finally a word on the passing of liberal columnist Molly Ivins. Certainly conservatives and fundamentalists will see the finger of God in her death, but I hasten to note that she died after her third bout with breast cancer. Perhaps God Almighty was keeping her around for some very important work.

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